Music about life, for life

Don’t Ever Underestimate How Much Effect You’re Having On Others

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When I was 19 I was at Art College and there was a model who I fell for called Caroline. One day I went in to the studio with a piece of paper in my pocket, on it I’d written, “Will you come out to dinner with me?” I didn’t get the courage to give her the paper, so nothing ever happened. A few years later I was talking to a friend about drawing models when his uncle said he had just read a poem about someone who fitted my description drawing a model. I looked at the poem and indeed it was by Caroline, it was about how she felt attracted to me as I drew her. By then of course it was too late, she was happily with someone else Grrrrrrr.

We never really know the full extent of our effect on others, good or bad. This week a book was delivered to me and in the acknowledgements it thanked me for a couple of my songs. Of course to read that was very touching. It got me thinking about how some of my songs had been directly affected by people I’d “met” on Facebook. How I often look at the pages of people who follow me, and how their posts feed in to my own creativity. So don’t ever underestimate the effect you’re having on others, you never really know.